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A koala climbing up a tree, Great Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia.🐨

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SpeciesDiprotodontiaPhascolarctidae
Marsupials

🐨Koala

Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss, 1817)

Коа́ла су́мчастий, коа́ла сі́рий, або су́мчастий ведмі́дь сі́рий (Phascolarctos cinereus) — вид роду коала (Phascolarctos), ссавець родини коалові, сумчаста травоїдна тварина, що мешкає в Австралії.

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vs you
≈ 1/11th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
5.65 kg
Body length
0.85 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Koala

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.65 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 9.3 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
0.85 m
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Brain mass
20 g
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Maximum lifespan
22 years
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  • 22 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
7.52 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.3 years
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Gestation
31 days
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  • 31 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0.01 km²
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Population density
163 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
5.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Koala yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Koala

Closest relative on this site
🐀 Virginia opossum — last shared an ancestor ≈ 72 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Koala (de), koala (fr), 無尾熊 (zh), koala australijski (pl), koala (es), koala (hu) … and 28 more languages

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